Safety pouch



I. M. COWAN SAFETY POUCH May 27, 1947.

Filed March a, 1944 flll lil llhl Illl IN V EN TOR. Jim/U Cowam BY G WWWW Patented May 27, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SAFETY POUCH vIrmaM. Cowan, Chicago, Ill.

Application March 8, 1944, Serial No. 525,519

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to safety pouches adapted for use inconjunction with Wearing apparel. More particularly, it pertains to animproved type of safety pouch adapted to be concealed, removably orotherwise, in position within a garment, such as mens trousers, womensskirts, or other articles of clothing suitable for the purposes forwhich the present invention is intended.

Conventional safety devices, such as money belts and the like, are oftenbulky, cumbersome and uncomfortable to the wearer because they areintended to be worn in a certain position around the body.

A principal object of the invention is to provide an article ofmanufacture to be used in conjunction with a garment, the articleconsisting of a safety pouch concealable within the garment,

and having a concealed opening with concealed opening and closing meanstherefor, and con- ;cealed means securing the pouch to the garment.

More specifically, it is an object of the present invention to provide agarment, such as trousers or the like, and a safety pouch removablysecured within the garment, the pouch, when the garment is in use, beingconcealed and having a concealed opening with concealed opening andclosing means, such as a zipper, and concealed metallic locking meansswivelly mounted on the pouch and to spaced apart buttons adjacent thewaist of the garment to hold the same in removably concealable position.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and will in partappear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessingthe features, properties, and the relation of elements which will beexemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of theapplication of which will be indicated in the claim.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the inventionreference should be had to the following detailed description taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing, in which: I

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a safety pouch embodying the presentinvention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary portion of a pouch illustrating one form ofsecuring and locking means to affix the same with a garment;

Fig. 3 is an end elevational view, somewhat enlarged, of the deviceshown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a view, somewhat similar to Fig. 2. illustrating anothermodification of securing and locking means;

Fig. 5 is a somewhat enlarged elevational view of the device shown inFig. 4; and

Fig. 6 is an illustrative embodiment of a garment suitablefor carryingsuch a pouch as therein indicated.

Referring more, particularly to the drawings, there. indicated generallyat [0 a safety pouch preferably made of fabric or any other suitablematerial. This pouch has an opening I 1 adjacent, one upper marginalportion and preferably is secured by means of a conventional type zipperarrangement indicated generally at I2, Such a, pouch can readily bpermanently secured in an inconspicuous position within wearing apparell3 in any suitable manner, such as by stitches along thev upper marginalportions thereof, as indicated at [4. The pouch is secured to the insidef the arment, prefer bly around the waist where it is readily accessibleto the wearer. Such pouches can conveniently be made permanent parts ofeach garment when the latter are. originally manufactured, or they canbe made to be removably securedin position at any other time if it isdesired to sell the article separately.

When the pouch is intended for separate sale it preferably has afiiXedthereto a locking means so that the same can readily be transferred andremovably secured to different garments. In Fig. 2, for example, thereis shown one form of such a locking means. Preferably this consists of asuitably bent wire in the form generally indicated at 15. A loop 16 ofthe wire is secured to the pouch In by means, for example, of a rivet llbeaded over at both ends and preferably with a washer I8 to secure it tothe side wall of the pouch. Such a securing means is best attached tothe wall opposite the side on which the zipper arrangement I2 islocated. The other end of the wire consists of a hook or clamp in thform of a loop IS. The remaining intermediate portions of the lockingarrangement l5 have the ends of the wire terminating in engageablehooks, one of which, 20, is an extension of the loop or hook portion I6,and the other of which, 2|, is a resilient extension of the'loop or hookportion l9. A pouch fitted with at least one of such hooks will beswivelly mounted around the rivet l l to hold the pouch in properlysuspended position when the hook I9 is secured within the garment, as,for example, to a suspended button 22. Most mens trousers are providedwith such buttons, whether a belt or suspenders are worn, and it becomesa simple matter to insert the pouch within the garment and to secure thesame in position when the hooks 20 and 2| are brought into interlockingengagement.

In another form of locking arrangement for the pouch, Fig. 4, adifferent type of locking device is provided. This consists preferablyof a flat piece of metal 25 doubled back upon itself and secured to thepouch wall opposite the zipper l2 by means of a tubular rivet 26 whichalso has secured on the inside of the pouch a washer 2'! between theother end of the rivet and the pouch wall 18. The ends 28 of a bent wire29, which has a hook portion 39,

are secured to the plate 25. Mounted on the bent wire, exteriorly ofwhere the ends are carried by the metal plate 25, is another bent wire3!. The ends 32 of this wire form hooks whereby the same is secured tothe wire 29. The wire 3! performs the function of a locking member. Forexample, after the pouch has been secured in position by hooking themember 3| over a suspender button, or the like, as described inconnection with the modification shown in. Fig. 2, the locking member 3|is moved upwardly from the dotted line position indicated at 33 anddisposed between the button 22 and the garment. Preferably, the member3| should be of sufiicient length to reach a point where the button issewed to the garment and is thus held by the button in locked position.

These are suitable engageable and disengageable devices for such asafety pouch readily to secure them within a proper garment so that theentire pouch itself and thus all looking members are made inconspicuouswhen worn in garments such as those herein indicated.

It will thus be seen that the objects hereinbefore set forth can readilyand efficiently be attained, and since certain changes may be made inthe above article and diiferent embodiments of the invention could bemade without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that allmatter contained in the above description and shown in the accompanyingdrawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitingsense.

It is also to be understood that the following claim is intended tocover all of th generic and specific features of the invention hereindescribed, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as amatter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is:

4 pouches, to garment buttons, comprising a, single strand offree-springing wire bent centrally into generally rectangular formationwith the free ends of the wire lying substantially adjacent each other,one portion of said generally rectangularly bent wire having a smalllooped portion extending therefrom and secured to said article by meansof a rivet member passing through said looped portion and through saidarticle, and another portion of said wire being bent to provide a hookconsisting of a loop having a constricted opening formed by adjacentportions of said wire, said hook being oppositely disposed from saidfirst named looped portion and integral with said generallyrectangularly bent wire formation, said hook being adapted to be hookedover a garment button, one end only of said wire being free sprin ingwhen so bent and terminating in a curved portion, the other end of saidwire terminating in a bent hook portion, and said free-springing curvedportion being adapted to be interlockingly engaged with the bent hookportion of theother end of said wire, thereby to secure said loopedportion firmly in locked position with respect to A securing means forsecuring articles, such as said button.

IRMA M. COWAN.

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